- Betting on women. More women gambled on this year’s Women’s World Cup than ever before, a milestone indicative of the growing interest women have in sports betting. Entrain, an international sports betting and gambling group headed up by Jette Nygaard-Andersen, found that women accounted for 21% of bets on England’s first three games in the tournament, a jump from 13% in 2019. Bloomberg

- Taiwan takes action. The president of Taiwan has signed three amendments to its sexual harassment prevention laws in a rapid response to its #MeToo-like movement. The amendments sets harsher penalties for workplace sexual harassment, extends the statute of limitations for complaints, and establishes stricter guidelines for relationships between teachers and students. They come in response to a wave of sexual harassment allegations against political figures, teachers, and university professors. Wall Street Journal

- Satellite, but no dish. Adriana Cisneros, who’s led the massive Cisneros Group conglomerate for 10 years, is turning her family’s Venezuelan fortune away from TV dominance and towards satellite technology. With approximately $38 million invested, Cisneros has a 4.7% stake in AST SpaceMobile Inc., a space-based broadband cellular network that Cisneros believes could be “bigger than anything I’ve—that we’ve—ever touched at Cisneros.” Bloomberg

- Spotlight for style. Female fashion designers, the underrepresented lifeblood of the fashion industry, will finally have the spotlight during the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fall show. Though the industry largely runs on female customers and products, this exhibit serves as a reminder that women have been excluded from designer and C-suite positions. New York Times

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: VintaBio named Jennifer Kingsly as chief commercial officer. Quantum Metric appointed Helena Day Christianson as chief people officer. WSP USA promoted Christi Byrd to national business line leader for advisory at WSP USA.

- Stevie speaks. Months after Hello Sunshine's Daisy Jones & the Six, loosely based on Fleetwood Mac, became a streaming hit, Stevie Nicks has weighed in. In an Instagram post this week, Nicks wrote that the show “brought back memories that made me feel like a ghost watching my own story.” CNN

- Sued for discrimination. O'Reilly Auto Parts is facing a lawsuit from Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson for allegedly discriminating and retaliating against at least 22 pregnant workers. The lawsuit claims that O'Reilly locations habitually refused to provide pregnant workers with reasonable accommodations and demoted employees who asked for them. The company says its policies comply with nondiscrimination laws. Seattle Times

- Escaping hate. A new book from Drew Gilpin Faust, who served as the first female president of Harvard from 2007-2018, takes a long critical look at the prejudice and conservatism that defined the Southern culture of her childhood. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, which publishes August 22, is described by Faust as both a reckoning with community's racial hate and a story of her escape from it. New York Times

- Second exit. Phylicia Rashad, dean of Howard's College of Fine Arts and school alum, is stepping down from her position after the 2023-2024 academic year. Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick praised Rashad, star of The Cosby Show, for attracting talent to the re-established Fine Arts college. Washington Post